"We're Tiny, we're Toony, we're all a little Looney!It's Tiny Toon Adventures! Come and join the fun!...and now our song is done."

A revival of sorts for the Looney Tunes style of comedy, using teenage Toons highlyreminiscent of several classic characters. But rather than pure rip-offs, they were actually being taught in school by the originals on being funny and the finer parts of Cartoon Physics and being a Toon. This continues the proud tradition of Warner Bros. animation having a heavy dose of meta-humor, shtick and Lampshade Hanging of many cartoon tropes, but this also incorporated themes of adolescence, Aesops, and '90s sensibilities. It was executive produced by Steven Spielberg, who, along with fellow executive Tom Ruegger, thought the Looney Tunes style was due for a makeover on television after the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

TTA started the Renaissance Age of Warner Brothers cartoons, resulting in similarshows that shared many of the same tropes and were produced in much the same way (writing, storyboards, key animation, and voice work done in the USA, inbetweening done by Asian studios — TMS excluded; they preferred to do most of their own work themselves, albeit with an uncredited staff). It was also one of the first shows not made by Disney to contribute to the '90s animation boom, following The Simpsons by less than a year.

The show premiered in syndication in the fall of 1990. Many of the stations that ran it were Fox affiliates, leading to Fox officially adding it to the afternoon lineup for its last season (1992-1993). After it left the Fox Kids lineup in 1995, it's since been shown in reruns on Nickelodeon, Kids' WB!, Cartoon Network, Childrens' ITV, Nicktoons TV, and The Hub.

The characters included:

Buster and Babs Bunny ("no relation") - A (respectively) blue and pink pair of Bugs Bunnys. Served as the main characters and would alternate between Like Brother and Sister and love interests of each other. Would often host and close each episode. While Buster was the Straight Man, Babs had more of a concrete personality, and was known for her excellent impersonations.

Plucky Duck - A green (he's a mallard), white tank-top-wearing Daffy who's about as scheming and (un)successful as his inspiration.

Hamton J. Pig - A neat freak who acts more like Plucky's sidekick. About the furthest distanced from his counterpart, Porky, out of all the characters.

Fifi La Fume - A purple female skunk who's just as oversexed as her male counterpart, Pepe Le Pew. Unlike Pepe, however, she seems to have far more control over her odor, she's a tad more melodramatic, and she doesn't have a problem with her object of desire chasing her.

Montana Max - Based on Yosemite Sam in name and temperament. The richest and meanest kid in Acme Acres, and owner of the legendary Acme company. Oddly, the Big Bad of Hellsingmight be named after him.

Dizzy Devil, pink/purple-haired mentee of the Tasmanian Devil. Is a party animal who, despite being disgusting, is actually considered attractive to women. As his name implies, his spinning makes him dizzy.

Furrball, "thpiritual thucthethor" to both Sylvester the Cat and Penelope Pussycat, and (with three exceptions) The Voiceless (like the latter). Inevitably, he pursues Tweety's female counterpart Sweetie Pie (who unlike many of the Sylvester/Tweety shorts is the instigator while Furrball is minding his own business). Most of the time, though, he's just the Butt Monkey.

Gogo Dodo - A thoroughly off-the-wall incarnation of cartoon surrealism, it is confirmed by the creators that Gogo is the son of the original Dodo from Porky in Wackyland. He resides in the supposedly same Wackyland, which is just outside the town of Acme Acres.

Shirley The Loon- A Valley Girl, part-time psychic, and part-time Love Interest of Plucky. Supposedly created by putting Melissa Duck (from "The Scarlet Pumpernickel") and Shirley MacLaine into a blender.

Little Sneezer- A mouse in a diaper who has a chronic sneezing problem inversely proportional to his size. Could be the Spiritual Successor to Chuck Jones's Sniffles the Mouse. His name on the other hand is a pun on "Little Cheeser", a non-Warner Bros. character.

Arnold, who is basically an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator in a white pitbull costume with shades. One of the only recurring new characters who is not an expy of a Tune.

Mary Melody, a black girl who often had Furrball as a pet. Is often featured as a background character or extra. Her name is, of course, a pun on "Merrie Melodies".

Concord Condor, a rather dopey purple condor who is probably an Expy of minor character Beaky Buzzard.

Fowlmouth, a little chicken with a tendency to swear excessively, most likely a Verbal Tic reminiscent of his mentor Foghorn Leghorn's.

Bookworm, a green, well, bookworm with big glasses based off of the companion to the Merrie Melodies character Sniffles. Naturally, he works in the library and is shown to be quite smart and good with computers.

The original Looney Tunes, most of whom are faculty members of Acme Looniversity, and who all make cameos sprinkled everywhere in the show. Often, they are personal tutors and greatly admired by their younger, respective spiritual successors.

Episodes were either broken into three 7-minute shorts, or made into half-hour full-episode adventures. Similarly, these would be split among stories dealing with misadventures in school, Looney Tunes-like shorts out in Acme Acres, or the occasional music video (the show's renditions of They Might Be Giants' "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and "Particle Man", for example, are favorites amongst fans of both the show and the band to this day).

The show was a precursor to - and the inspiration for - Animaniacs; they were both produced by the same staff and shared many of the same writers. The main difference is that Tiny Toons generally had all the characters interacting with each other, while Animaniacs focused mostly on individual characters or groups for their Three Shorts.

The first season is now available on iTunes, broken up into volumes. Here it is.

The show has been reaired in Russia since 2010, "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special" was reaired in the UK in December 2011, and the one hour special "Night Ghoulery" aired on Vortexx on October 27, 2012, with a repeat airing on November 24 of the same year. Tiny Toon Adventures has been airing on The Hub as of July 1st.

Tiny Toon Adventures provides examples of:

Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: In "Concord the Kindly Condor" (part of "Toons from the Crypt"), one of the vultures keeps circling Concord who, instead of turning his whole body to look at the vulture, merely keeps turning his head. He turns it 360 degrees at least three times.

Absentee Actor: Babs does not appear in the episodes, "Test Stress", "Kon Ducki", Sepulveda Boulevard" (though her face can be seen on a billboard in the WB studio), "Flea For Your Life", "Toons From the Crypt", and "Grandma's Dead". Buster does not appear in the episodes, "Sepulveda Boulevard" and "Grandma's Dead".

Absurdly Long Limousine: Montana Max has one with a built-in swimming pool, as seen in "Buster's Guide to Part-Time Jobs" (part of "Career Oppor-Toon-Ities").

And Call Him George: Elmyra loves doing this. It even gets to the point where one short revolves around the many animals she has inadvertently killed over the course of her childhood coming back to get revenge. And she loves them anyway.

Angst Nuke: In "Toons Take Over", Cooper DeVille is so furious at the movie Buster, Babs, and Plucky created that flames shoot out the top of his head.

Animal Stereotypes: Subverted with Hamton. Elmyra believes he's filthy just because he's a pig, even though many instances show he's the exact opposite. His uncle fits the pig stereotype, though.

Animated Actors: At the start of the second act of "A Quack in the Quarks", Buster, Babs, and Hamton are out of character and discussing Plucky's salary. They're told by an off-screen director to get into places, and when he says "Action", they get back into character and vow to save Plucky from space aliens.

The first episode goes even further and suggest that not only are Babs and Buster actors, they created the show from scratch! They even get a "created by" credit in the credits roll. Lampshaded in "The Looney Beginning."

One can tell which animation team did which episodes. For example, several episodes (including the pilot) resemble A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, being animated by Kennedy Cartoons (whose head, Glen Kennedy, was the animation director on the first season of APNSD).

As mentioned in the intro to this page, TMS animated several episodes.

Anvil on Head: Played straight, subverted, lampshaded, you name it! And we didn't even mention the "Anvil Chorus" short.

In "The Learning Principal", when the Great and Powerful Principal tries to decide on how to punish Buster for disrupting Yosemite Sam's class, he thinks about boiling him in oil, stretching him out on a rack, and confiscating his stereo.

In the same special, during the "Frankenmyra and Dizzygor" sketch, Elmyra orders Dizzy to fetch a brain for her monster. While he does not find a brain, he does find a spleen, a pancreas, and some frozen waffles.

Artifact Title: Some might wonder why the episode titled "Animaniacs!" has nothing to do with the Animaniacs TV series to come later.

Ascended Extra: Gogo Dodo and his residence of Wackyland are a large part of the show, to the point that Gogo appears in the opening theme. He is based on a character from a single 1938 Porky Pig short, not counting the color remake.

Assumed Win: Played straight in "Hare-Raising Night" when Plucky assumed he won an Emmy and started to walk towards the stage. It went to Melvin instead.

Ate the Spoon: Does this a few times as a shoutout to their predecessors.

In "Li'l Sneezer" (part of "Test Stress"), Furrball disguises himself as a babysitter as part of his plan to catch Sneezer and get his picture in the Hall of Cartoon Pussycats. Sneezer's powerful sneezes end up foiling his every attempt to catch him.

In "Drooley Davey" (part of "The Wide World of Elmyra"), Elmyra (who is clearly too young and stupid to be a proper babysitter) looks after the titular salivating infant. At one point, she tries feeding him extremely hot milk.

In "I Was a Teenage Bunnysitter" (Part of "The Acme Home Shopping Show"), Babs looks after Duncan Potter, a toddler rabbit who demands a mashed-potato man at dinner and a scary story at bedtime.

Bad Future: In the final Christmas Special episode, Buster is treated to a world where he was never drawn up. Montana Max had bought out EVERYTHING (Acme Acres now Montyville), the show itself is basically nothing more than shameless self-promotion and glorification for Plucky, and Acme Looniversity is now a BUSINESS Looniversity where students learn to be suck-up actors/actresses rather than on comedy. The real problem was a shot to Buster's heart when he finds out that Babs is forever miserable with her life, a complete opposite of how she used to be. It also didn't help that in that timeline, she's Plucky's personal Butt Monkey. All because in this timeline Buster was never drawn up.

A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: The Duff Family from the episodes, "Take Elmyra Please" and "Grandma's Dead" consists of two girls (Amanda and Elmyra), a boy (Duncan) and a baby (who is referred to as "Baby").

Brick Joke: During a Global Warming cartoon, Buster asks to book a trip on Noah's Ark.

The Cameo: An Animaniacs short about Noah would later have Buster and Babs cameo as the rabbits.

Early in "Hollywood Plucky", we see Buster and Babs sitting at an abandoned bus stop in the middle of nowhere, due to faulty directions Plucky gave them. At the very end of the episode, after Plucky finally makes contact with Cooper De Ville, Cooper mentions that he already made the script that Plucky was pitching, only starring Buster and Babs. He found them at a bus stop while out driving.

Butt Sticker: In How I Spent My Vacation, while Hamton's family is playing "Spot the Car", Hamton's Uncle Stinky is hopping up and down on Plucky.

By the Lights of Their Eyes: Lampshaded, naturally. In "Gang Busters", Buster and Plucky decide to play Pong and Pac-Man with their stretched-out eyeballs, then witness something unexpected when they decide to light a match...

Call Back: In "A Bacon Strip" (part of "The ACME Acres Zone"), Hamton tries to sneak home naked, but is spotted by a tour bus, where the tour guide says, "And to your left is a naked pig." This joke is re-visited in "Kon Ducki" when Hamton briefly loses his grass skirt.

The Cameo: Besides the above examples, in the Spring Break special, the red-headed Dead End Kid from the Bugs Bunny short, "Easter Yeggs" is among the children participating in the White House Easter Egg Hunt, still repeating his infamous line of "I wanna Easter Egg!"

Canon Immigrant: Superman in How I Spent My Summer Vacation. He's a Warner Bros. property, so it makes perfect sense.

Can't Hold His Liquor: Buster, Plucky, and Hamton in "One Beer" (part of "Elephant Issues"); they're instantly winos after one beer. Justified in they're technically teenagers and the point of the short was to show kids the dangers of underage drinking.

Circling Birdies: In one episode, Elmyra gets the circling birdies but, being the animal lover that she is, grabs one of the birdies and squeezes it.

Class Clown: In "The Learning Principal" (Part of "Looniversity Daze"), Buster is one and gets sent to the Principal's office for disrupting class. It is later revealed that the class was Class Clowning 101, and the reason why he was sent to the principal was because his class clowning antics weren't funny enough for him to pass.

Ronald Grump in the cartoon, "Jungle Bungle" from the episode, "Pollution Solution".

Montana Max himself is one at times, notably the Toxic Revenger cartoons.

Cowboy Episode: In the episode, "High Toon", Buster and Babs take a wrong turn on their way to the amusement park, AcmeLand, and wind up in Prairie Junction. While there, they defend it from the Coyote Kid and his gang of outlaws.

Culture Police: "Washingtoon" had a woman representing an organization "against funny cartoons" and taking over Acme Acres with a device that stripped most of the kids of their "tooniness" so they could become bland, pro-social educators.

Dark Horse Victory: Throughout the short, "The Year Book Star" (Part of "Toon Physics"), Babs and Plucky compete to see who can get the most photos in the school yearbook, with the loser having to suffer the humiliation of the winner's choice. During the official count-off, they appear to have tied, until it is revealed that a boy wearing an orange hat appeared in the background of each photo either of them was in, causing him to win easily. During his speech, the boy reveals himself to be a disguised Buster Bunny, who entered the competition to teach Babs and Plucky not to compete to win a bet. This prompts Babs and Plucky to beat him up as the cartoon irises out.

A Day in the Limelight: The episodes "Two-Tone Town" and "Fields of Honey" are tributes to the original Warner Bros. cartoon stars, Bosko and Honey, as well as Foxy, Roxy and Goopy Geer, all of whom had been stuck in cartoon limbo for decades by that point.

Deliberately Monochrome: The short "Sound Off", appropriate since it was parodying silent cartoons. Also Two Tone Town in the episode of the same name.

Depending on the Artist: Several animation studios worked on the cartoon and it often shows. Kennedy Cartoons, in particular, had a tendency to do "squash and stretch" Up to Eleven, leading to very polarized opinions (fans calling it energetic, fluid, and bouncy, haters calling it sloppy). They were fired after Season 1.

Babs, after trashing a TV that was showing a rerun of Tiny Toons: I hate the way I was drawn in that episode. I hate the way I was drawn in this episode too.

Deranged Animation: Seen in many episodes that were animated by Freelance, Kennedy Cartoons, and the early Wang Film Productions episodes.

Deus ex Machina: Hamton winning a brand new house at the end of "Hog-Wild Hamton".

Disproportionate Retribution: In "Wait 'Till Your Father Gets Even" (from "Toons From the Crypt"), Plucky is put onto a table saw for winning Hamton's dad's bottle cap collection in a game of jacks.

Disqualification-Induced Victory: In "Bleacher Bummer" (part of "The Wacko World of Sports"), Perfecto Prep's baseball team clobbers Acme Looniversity's in a game that Dizzy and Furrball are trying to sneak into. When they get chased by Arnold, who is working as a security guard, they break the Perfectos' bat, revealing they have been cheating using the "Magnet-in-the-bat" scam, thus resulting in Perfecto Prep being disqualified and Acme Looniversity winning the game by default.

Domesticated Dinosaurs: In "Rock N' Roar", Buster picks up an egg while trying to get his soccer ball back, which hatches into a dinosaur. He tries keeping him as a pet, naming him "Rover" and even raising him to be a vegetarian, but Rover's massive size makes a mess of Acme Acres and Montana Max tries to trap him. At the end, Buster has to return Rover to the cave where he found his egg.

Don't Eat And Swim: On one episode, Calamity Coyote works as a lifeguard at a pool. After he sees Hamton eat something and try to get in, Calamity warns him (with a sign) to wait 30 minutes. Hamton shrugs it off, and as soon as he dips his toe in the pool, he gets cramps all over and falls in.

Don't Explain the Joke: The plot of the short "Lame Joke" stems from Buster's titular joke (anthropomorphically personified by a clown) dying due to Babs, Plucky, and Hamton not getting it and Buster only saying in response, "Get it?" Hamton ends up explaining it after he and Babs finally get it, after which Plucky also joins in on the ensuing laughter. This somehow revives the dead joke.

"Out of Odor", in which Fifi ends up getting captured by Elmyra in the end despite Fifi getting her stink back due to Elmyra getting an allergic reaction from roses and not being able to smell it.

"Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?" ends with Daffy, Plucky, and Hamton still in jail (the former for a crime he didn't commit, and the latter two for trying to break him out).

In "Two-Tone Town", Buster and Babs help obscure Warner Bros. stars Foxy, Roxy, Goopy Geer, and Big Bee get parts on an upcoming television show when they are down on their luck. Unfortunately, the new show replaces Tiny Toon Adventures in its time slot, thus cancelling it and forcing Buster and Babs to get jobs at Toonywood Squares.

Down to the Last Play: Pretty much any time they do a sports story, most notably "Buster at the Bat" which is a parody of the poem Casey at the Bat and another episode where they were playing Football. Averted in another baseball story where Buster's team was getting slammed, and they won by proving the other team was cheating.

Drugs Are Bad: One entire episode which was pulled off the line of reruns where Buster, Plucky and Hamton get a single beer from the fridge and goes on a drunken rampage ending with a car over the cliff scene to show kids that beer and drugs are bad for you.

The episode in question was in a Three Shorts format, but the other two cartoons didn't contribute to the ban. One of them is about Dizzy Devil obsessing over television and refusing to read books, and the other was about Montana Max discriminating against a robot.

Roderick and Rhubella Rat were introduced in "Butt Out" as a pair of smokers who annoy Babs, and Babs ensures they will never smoke again.

Dunce Cap: In "Never Too Late To Loon," Plucky has to wear one after he is put in detention for failing his math test. (He had asked Shirley to "channel Einstein" for him, not realizing that Einstein was a dunce at basic math as a child.)

Dying Declaration of Love: Played straight in the Tiny Toon Adventures movie, in which the cast is being pursued on an Indiana Jones-style minecart ride with a chainsaw wielding psychopath trying to kill them, and Babs and Buster both confess their feelings for one another.

Emergency Cargo Dump: Towards the end of "No Toon is An Island", Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton escape from Booty Island with the treasure and the X-Bird. The combined weight of those items causes their boat to start sinking, and Buster declares that they need to throw something overboard. Plucky is about to throw the X-Bird off the boat, but the others toss out the treasure instead, despite Plucky's protest.

Even the Dog Is Ashamed: In "Toons Take Over", a boy, a girl, and their pet dog are watching TV when Babs pirates the signal to show the world an adventurous, romantic, and dramatic cartoon that she, Buster, and Plucky made. The dog, along with the boy and girl, are disgusted by the cartoon.

Everything's Louder With Bagpipes: The plot to "My Brilliant Revenge" (part of "Fox Trot"): Plucky's loud bagpipe playing overpowers "Swine Search" on TV (which Hamton has been waiting all year to watch). After missing the entire show due to the noise, Hamton rips up Plucky's bagpipes.

Evil Counterparts: Roderick and Rhubella Rat are pretty much this to Buster and Babs, even sharing their voice actors.

Perfecto Prep (Roderick's school) has evil counterparts for several of the Tiny Toons.

Evil Versus Obliviously Evil: The show was fond of pitting the nastiest of vile villains against little Elmyra, only for the bad guys to find to their dismay that Elmyra is even worse. This happened quite a bit to Monty, but featured with other baddies as well.

Fake Interactivity: In the first "You Asked For It" episode, Plucky uses a mind-reading machine to read the viewers' minds and determine who will star in the upcoming cartoon. In "Duck Out of Luck", he rigs it to only display Plucky after the first two attempts resulted in Buster and Babs cartoons, but the bunnies have modified the machine so that the viewers could determine what happens to Plucky. Plucky is placed in what seemed to be favorable scenarios at first, only to end up in a Butt Monkey situation. At the end of the cartoon, he gives up and asks the viewers what they'd really want to see. He ends up being split into Buster and Babs.

Family-Unfriendly Death: In the episode, "One Beer", Buster, Plucky, and Hamton get drunk and die in a car accident.

A baby version of Plucky Duck is learning how to use the toilet for the first time. He gets a lot of enjoyment flushing various items down it, such as toilet paper, Furrball, his toys, even his own diaper! He even climbed into it himself and tried to flush himself down the hole! The toilet gets clogged up as a result.

This gag was repeated in two more episodes, which consist of a trip to the mall where he plays with the elevator controls, and a miniature golf course with Plucky struggling to knock the ball in, going as far as to cheat (He gets better at it, though). It was also done in several Animaniacs episodes whenever he made a cameo.

"The Undersea World Of Fifi" had Elmyra searching for sea monkeys, and it ends with her draining it and having her say the exact same line as baby Plucky did.

The Kon Ducki episode had Plucky flushing a boat down the toilet as part of the "special effects" during the behind the scenes portion of the episode.

Furry Confusion: Furrball vs. the rest of the cast. Furrball was usually portrayed as being a "normal" cat instead of a Funny Animal, but kept weaving back and forth between the two extremes.

Then there's the owner of the pet store in "Elmyra at the Mall" (part of "You Asked For It Again"); he's a standing, talking dog instructing other animals how to get sold. The other animals act like regular animals.

Give Me a Sword: Played for laughs during the opening of "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian" — Hamton asks Plucky for his sword, and Plucky appears dragging the sword across the floor, asking if they could have taken an elevator instead. Hamton responds, "Ahem!" Plucky then tries to actually lift the sword, only to fall down and flatten himself with the blade. Hamton then nonchalantly picks the sword up himself.

Go-Karting with Bowser: Elmyra and Montana Max both go to school with the main characters. This occasionally poses a problem.

Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Buster, and Babs on some occasions (like her tribute to Groucho Marx); in some cases, she's wearing pants or a skirt, but no shirt (her hula outfit from "No Toon Is an Island", for example).

Hanging Judge: In one of the skits in "K-ACME TV", Yosemite Sam plays "Hanging Judge Sam".

Hollywood Heart Attack: In "Lame Joke", the Lame Joke suffers one after Buster told his friends a bad joke that can't make them laugh, then collapses and slowly dies.

Hollywood Native: In one episode, Buster, Babs and Hamton are stuck on an island and chased by natives. Animated Actors is invoked at one point, where Buster says, "Look, there are some naivetes," and Babs points out that it's a typo in the script, at which point Buster screams and runs away.

The episode "Starting From Scratch" is a homage to An American Tail, only it's done with fleas instead of mice. One must wonder if Steven Spielberg had a say in that episode, since he produced An American Tail too.

The episode "High Toon" featured a Mousekewitz-esque family of Mexican chihuahuas, complete with the kid that voiced Fievel voicing the young chihuahua Pedro.

Humans Are Bastards: Ever notice that most of the antagonists on this show are humans? Mostly Montana Max and cloud cuckoolander Elmyra Duff but the only sole exception to this is Mary Melody, in fact she is a better owner for Furrball than Elmyra was. It seems pretty hard to find a human on this show who isn't a total jerk to the main characters.

That basically stems from the fact that humans were usually the antagonists in most of the Looney Tunes shorts as well. When Bugs and Daffy weren't at each others' throats, it was either Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, or some other guy.

Hypocritical Humor: The big running gag when Buster does a "Mr. Popular" episode - where he gives bad advice on how to be cool, backslides when that advice goes hilariously sour, and turns out not to be all that cool in the first place. Mr. Popular also gave advice against buying stuff bearing images of people they idolize, prompting the person who asked for the advice to inquire about a refund for Mr. Popular merchandise. Buster moaned the loss of his Christmas Bonus.

Ice-Cream Koan: Plucky's inspirational speech to the alien kids in "A Quack in the Quarks", which included such gems as "Let the force be... your umbrella" and "A stitch in time saves... a lot of embarrassment."

Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Episode titles frequently fall into one of three different categories; having "Acme" in the title, having "Toon" in the title, or having "Day" at the end of the title.

I Fell for Hours: In the episode "Journey to the Center of Acme Acres", Plucky and Hamton fall down a crack in the ground when a huge earthquake hist Acme Acres. After a while, they start getting bored and hope they eventually hit something just to break the monotony. They eventually end up at the center of the Earth where they float because their gravity reaches an equilibrium.

In "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow", when Buster plays dead to trick and escape from Elmyra, Plucky stops by in the middle of his performance to ask if he can have his videotape collection. Buster asks if they could talk about it later, and Plucky angrily storms off.

A Running Gag throughout "The Learning Principal" (Part of "Looniversity Daze") has Buster's friends ask for his stereo. The Principal even thinks about using this as an appropriate punishment for Buster. Buster then asks the viewers if he's the only one with a CD player.

I Have a Family: A lobster tries this on Hamton in "Drawn and Buttered" (part of "Here's Hamton"). Hamton knows he's lying because he has the same photo; it came with the wallet.

Played straight in "Easy Biter" (part of "Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night") when the mosquito shows Hamton a picture of his family from his wallet. Hamton lets him live.

In the "Acme Cable TV" sketch, "Toonywood Squares", when Buster is asked what the difference between Mayonnaise and Elmyra's brain is, Buster answers with "The Mayonnaise has a higher IQ. After this answer is confirmed to be correct, Blink Winkleman says that the Mayonnaise has an IQ of 1 and Elmyra has no discernable IQ (meaning an IQ of 0).

While the actual number is not specifically stated, in the "Toon TV" music video, "Toon Out, Toon In", Dizzy Devil's IQ is implied to be between that of a dopefish and a chicken leg.

In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: "Kon Ducki" begins with: "Plucky Epic Pictures presents: A Pluck Production of a Plucky Duck Film, "The Voyage of Kon Ducki", starring Plucky Duck as Pluck Heyerdahl, a film directed, produced, written, visualized, conceived, choreographed, and catered by Plucky Duck." Oh yeah, and there's a brief mention that Hamton is in the film.

In the short, "My Brilliant Revenge" from the episode, "Fox Trot", Plucky is practicing his bagpipes for the Acme All-Bagpipe band outside Hamton's house. Hamton is trying to watch his favorite show, Swine Search, and can't hear it over Plucky's bagpipes. At first, he politely asks Plucky to stop, but Plucky ignores him and continues practicing. When Hamton misses the entire show, he destroys Plucky's bagpipes in a fit of rage. At the end of the cartoon, it is revealed that Hamton taped the show...and that he somehow missed Plucky's final musical attack: a tape recording of bagpipes cranked Up to Eleven (Plucky ends up setting it off himself).

In "Toon TV", the song "Do You Love Me?" appears to conclude, only to iris in on Babs plucking her eyelashes and getting annoyed that the song is still going.

Babs: MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!!!

The short, "Ruffled Ruffee" from the episode, "Music Day" begins with Buster playing his electric guitar and inadvertently interrupting a children's concert hosted by the Raffi Expy Ruffee, who yells at him to be quiet and tosses his electric guitar and speakers into his burrow in response.

In-Joke: During the beginning of "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian", the duo are trying to sneak in to Steven Spielberg's office to complain to him about Hampton's day in the limelight. On their way, they pass a group waiting to be seen by Spielberg: Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, George Lucas as Darth Vader, and...some guy dressed up as a tiger. The joke here is that tiger is the school mascot of Kate Collins Middle School in Waynsboro, VA, The school the three young ladies who wrote this episode, Renee Carter, Sarah Creef, and Amy Crosby, attended at the time they wrote "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian".

Instant Roast: An American bald eagle incinerated by some fireworks bears a striking resemblance to a Thanksgiving turkey.

Interspecies Romance: Dizzy was often found in the company of (sometimes several) beautiful, human women.

Fifi has also gone after Dizzy, but she usually chases after characters (namely Furrball, Calamity, and Beeper) that she thinks are skunks. She also went to the prom with Hamton, who was revealed to have a crush on her. Chalk it up to the lack of skunks at Acme Loo.

Plucky and Shirley the Loon are a fairly consistent couple, despite Shirley being...well, a loon. (She looks exactly like a duck.) Fowlmouth also likes Shirley, though, and in "The Return of Pluck Twacey", it seems that Plucky, like his mentor, has a thing for the pigeon from "Plane Daffy".

Monty had a brief romance with Babs in the cartoon, "Love Among the Toons" from the episode, "Spring in Acme Acres" as a result of Concord Condor filling in for a lazy Elmer Fudd-esque Cupid. Among the other couples Concord tried to pair were Hamton and Elmyra, Calamity Coyote and Little Beeper, and Bookworm and an Elephant.

Ironic Hell: Silas Wonder, an evil circus ringmaster who kidnapped Wackyland residents for his sideshow collection, drove his train engine off a cliff to his death near the end of the episode. He was deposited directly in a cage in Hell next to strange-looking demonic creatures. The devil in charge then provides an Ironic Echo of what Silas had said earlier upon catching Gogo Dodo: "Now my collection is complete!"

Jackass Genie: Wishing Star variant; In the short, "Once Upon A Star" (part of "Toon Physics"), Elmyra wishes on a star that her Barbette doll were real so that they could play together. The wish brings Barbette to life. However, Barbette is very selfish, rude, and arrogant. The following night, Elmyra wishes on the same star, saying that she wants her Barbette doll to be just like her other dolls. Instead of turning her Barbette doll back to the way she was before, the star brings all her other dolls to life, who act just as selfish, rude, and arrogant as Barbette.

Jerkass: Sweetie Pie, who hijacks a themed episode to indulge in her own egotistical fantasies where she tortures anyone and everyone in her path. One short has her attempting to get Furrball to chase and eat her, heaping various punishments and humiliations on the poor cat, and when he does finally reach his breaking point and attempt to off the little hellspawn she just heaps MORE violence on the poor cat, who at the beginning of the short was minding his own damn business.

Montana Max, Plucky Duck, and Little Beeper are also jerkasses more often than not.

The entire cast (sans Mary, Hamton, Calamity and Fifi) are this when you think about it.

Kangaroo Court: In "Gang Busters", Buster and Plucky are put on trial for a crime Montana Max framed them for. The jury is made up of clones of Yosemite Sam.

Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: In "Duck in the Dark," Plucky watches a marathon of "Eddie Cougar" horror movies, including one that has him attacking a screaming Bambi. Of course it ends up giving Plucky horrible nightmares.

Plucky: Only a total idiot would be afraid of these movies!

Buster: I rest my case.

Kill the Poor: A kid-friendly variant. Babs, in order to raise funds to build a classic cartoon theater (long story), finds a way to scam Montana Max: she disguises herself as a rich woman and comes to his door seeking donations "to fight poverty on Earth." When he's about to slam the door, she continues, "...We're going to send all the poor people to the Moon."

Max: Ooh! I'll give for that.

Kissing In A Tree: Sung sarcastically by various characters to Montana Max in "My Dinner With Elmyra" (part of "Love Disconnection").

Latex Perfection: Surprisingly happens quite a bit, mainly for some sort of surprise or twist...

"Stuff that Goes Bump in the Night" had Buster and Babs trying to prank each other with such disguises of monsters in the bridging sequences, with Babs in a devil suit (with crotch entry), Buster as a stereotypical vampire (complete with stilts), ending with the two disguised as a two-headed monster.

"Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow" had a scene near the end where four Buster Bunnies scare Elmyra and send her running for the hills. Once she's gone, three of them tug off their masks to reveal Furrball, Fifi le Fume and Tyrone Turtle.

In "Buster and the Wolverine," Babs uses a rubber mask to disguise herself as a female wolverine to trick the real one, and even though her true bunny ears are still visible, it manages to fool the Wolverine until the mask comes off.

In "Real Kids Don't Like Broccoli," futuristic private eye Buster finds out his friends are really the stolen androids he was looking for, all dressed in rubber masks. What tipped him off was how they were all munching on broccoli, something real kids don't eat.

Also seen in "Out of Odor," when Elmyra disguises herself flawlessly as Pepe Le Pew as a trap to catch Fifi and remove her stench. Despite her voice sounding nothing like Pepe, it manages to fool Fifi anyways.

In "The Year Book Star," a boy in an orange hat is awarded for being in most pictures in the Acme Looniversity yearbook. But when he reveals himself to be Buster Bunny in a latex mask and suit, trying to teach them a lesson, Plucky and Babs beat him up in a rage.

Liquid Assets: The episode, "Washingtoon" had the A.A.F.C. (standing for Adults Against Funny Cartoons, of course) Chairperson, the main villain of the episode, using a machine to drain cartoon characters of their "tooniness." Buster's tooniness is too strong for the machine, destroying it and returning everyone's tooniness (Although not all of them to their proper bodies.), including The A.A.F.C. Chairperson's tooniness, which had been lost many years ago, and saving Acme Acres.

List Song: The opening has a verse that lists the main characters and sums them up perfectly:

In the episode, "Prom-ise Her Anything", Elmyra wore Furrball as a sash as part of her prom outfit.

In the short, "Fur-Gone Conclusion" from the episode, "Rainy Daze", Babs, as Buffy Vanderbunny, wears a Baby Seal as a sash in order to save him from being skinned alive by Gotcha Grabmore. She even tells her that wearing live animals is the latest fashion.

Logo Joke: One sight gag in "The Looney Beginning" featured the classic "WB shield" chasing the "Big W" logo from The Seventies with a large hammer.

Loud of War: Seen in "Hog-Wild Hamton" when Plucky plays loud music from Hamton's house, which causes Egghead Jr. to eventually retaliate by blowing up their house.

Meaningful Echo: In "Washingtoon", Babs comments to Buster that his "tooniness" is too much for the censor lady's vaccum machine. Later near the end, Buster's tooniness gets sucked into the machine...and it becomes so much for the machine, it explodes, releasing his and the others' tooninesses and saving Acme Acres.

Medium Awareness: Characters will often mention that a commercial break is about to start.

Medium Shift Gag: Though not really animated, during the "Love Among the Toons" segment of the episode "Spring in Acme Acres", we see clay model versions of the toons through a ViewMaster.

Mickey Mousing: One of the first cartoons in years to do this, due to an orchestra scoring each episode individually, rather than recycling canned scores for the entire series.

Mid-Battle Tea Break: Seen in "And All That Rot" (part of "Brave Tales of Real Rabbits"): During a high-paced chariot chase/duel through city streets, Big Ben chimes, to which everyone (including the horses) stops for tea time. After a few seconds of this, the chase resumes.

In the first wraparound of "Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night", Babs scares Buster while disguised as a devil. In the third wraparound, a Two-headed Monster sneaks up behind Buster, who thinks it's Babs in disguise again. The real Babs shows up, and the two bunnies run for their lives from the Two-headed Monster.

Mix-and-Match Critters: Dr. Gene Splicer specializes in making these. His most notable creation is Melvin the Monster, who has the head of a bulldog, the horns of a bull, the body of an orangutan, the wings of a bat, the legs of a pig, and the tail of an alligator.

Morally Ambiguous Ducktorate: Not only used (Plucky being an Expy of Daffy), but implied to be an in-universe stereotype about ducks. During the "Acme Looniversity" song in the first episode, Bugs directs Plucky toward "classes ducks might find appealing/Like, for instance, Spotlight Stealing!" (The Spotlight Stealing class is taught, of course, by Daffy.)

Ms. Fanservice: Subject to YMMV, and kept fairly tame (at least by comparison with its successor Animaniacs), but there are instances.

Babs doesn't ordinarily qualify, but some of her 'impersonations' and costume switches deliberately evoke it.

No Dialogue Episode: There was even an episode done in faux-retro style, with black and white animation and no spoken dialogue whatsoever.

No Fourth Wall: The characters very frequently acknowledge that they're in a cartoon and/or address the audience in some way.

Buster: (facing the camera) Hiya, toonsters!

In fact, the first episode of the series has no fourth wall, as it's about a cartoonist under a deadline creating Buster, Babs, and Acme Acres and interacting with his backtalking, suggestion-offering creations as they look up at him from the page.

No Name Given: In "Toon TV", Babs introduces herself as "Downtown Babsy Brown", while Buster introduces himself as "someone else".

Not His Sled: In keeping with "Citizen Max" being a parody of Citizen Kane, a discarded bicycle that Monty used to ride with Buster when they were friends is shown with the "ACME" logo on it, leading viewers to believe that that was what Monty was referring to when he said "Acme!". Monty then appears and tells Buster, Babs, and Hamton that he didn't say "Acme!", he said "Acne!", and shows them an outbreak of pimples on his face.

In the "Making of" segment of the episode, "Kon Ducki", Plucky's original plan was to have Hamton as his stunt double during the scene where the mast falls on him. However, Hamton's inability to remember his lines led to Plucky having to do his own stunts.

Plucky himself became one in "The Return of Batduck", as Michael Keaton's stunt double during the filming of Batman Returns. He is even referred to as the "Stunt Duck" by the director.

Ocular Gushers: Parodied to the extreme in "The Return of Pluck Twacy" (part of "New Character Day"): Shirley cries so much that her tears flood Pluck Twacy's office and send him onto the street, miles away.

Off Model: Daffy and Plucky in prison at the end of "Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?" look noticeably off-model and sloppy.

"Buster and the Wolverine" had quite a few off-model shots as well.

Plucky is briefly wearing a sleeved shirt in "What's Up Nurse?" of "Looniversity Days". In the same episode, during the first segment, he's colored purple.

Also, in "The Learning Principal", Bugs is briefly drawn without whiskers. In the very next shot, Bugs is drawn with whiskers as usual.

Of course, this is all due to multiple studios working on the series.

The episodes done by Kennedy Cartoons are particularly notorious for this, which explains why the studio was fired after the first season. At least one episode of theirs allegedly had to be completely redone before it could be aired.

In some respects, the episodes done by Encore Cartoons can be considered even worse, though they tend to be forgotten, since they only did three episodes (one of which has Alan Smithee credited as director), and nothing else, neither on Tiny Toons or on any other series. Which means that these episodes are often mistaken for Kennedy episodes.

The number of off model episodes was so high, a Lampshade Hanging was only inevitable; twice in fact. Unsurprisingly, they were in gag credits of a Kennedy episode ("Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow") and an Encore episode ("Strange Tales of Weird Science"). The former has "Moral of the Story: We Need More Animators," while the latter had "Number of Retakes: Don't Ask."

One Steve Limit: There are two characters named "Duncan" in the series; Duncan Potter, the little rabbit boy that Babs Bunny babysat in "I Was a Teenage Bunnysitter" (Part of "The Acme Home Shopping Show), and Duncan Duff, Elmyra's younger brother who appears in the episodes, "Take Elmyra Please" and "Grandma's Dead".

The One Who Wears Shoes: A few, such as Calamity Coyote and Little Beeper. It's especially weird because it's the only thing they wear.

In "A Quack in the Quarks", Buster, Babs, and Hamton try to find Plucky by inserting one of his feathers into their rocket's computer. The feather tickles the computer and makes the rocket go out of control, so the gang have to peel onions in order to make it cry and function normally.

In "Eating Between the Lines" (part of "Looniversity Daze"), Sweetie lands in The Onion Field and slices onions to trick Bookworm into crying with her so she can eat him when he's off guard. This plan fails because everyone goes to the library when lunch period is over, giving Bookworm enough time to escape.

In "Grandma's Dead", Mac Duff, Elmyra's father, is trying to desalinize tears so he can turn them into drinking water. To collect his tears, he intentionally chops onions while listening to sad music on the radio.

Only Smart People May Pass: Done in "Day For Knight" (part of "Brave Tales of Real Rabbits") when Buster wants to cross the bridge.

Pair the Spares: Basically the reason why Hamton and Fifi are occasionally paired together, usually seen alongside the other main couples Buster/Babs and Plucky/Shirley. "Prom-ise Her Anything" is the best example of this.

The short, "I was a Teenage Bunny-sitter" (Part of "The Acme Home Shopping Show"), opens with Babs talking to her unseen friend, Harriet on the phone, but then she has to leave to babysit and says she'll call back. After meeting Mr. and Mrs. Potter there, she makes a sandwich and calls Harriet back, only to have to hang up again to make a mashed-potato man for Duncan, the kid she's babysitting. At the end of the cartoon, Babs is seen sleeping on the couch while Duncan is talking to harriet on the phone.

In "Take Elmyra Please", Amanda is seen on the phone, talking to her friend, Stephanie. She has to call her back when her Mother needs her help calming her baby brother back to sleep when he awakens from his crib and causes a mini-rampage through the living room. During her conversation, Amanda tells Stephanie she's lucky to live in a family where her parents are always gone, and without brothers, sisters, or pets.

Picked Last: One cartoon sees Hamton complain about always getting picked last on the soccer team. At the end, the team apologizes, saying that it's not because they don't like him...

Political Correctness Gone Mad: The episode "Washingtoon", where a lobbyist calls for the cancellation of Tiny Toons because it contains comic violence. She wants every kids program on the air to be touchy-feely, inoffensive, and bland.

The first one introduced us to Mr. Skullhead, as the subject of Elmyra's imaginary TV show. He went on to become a recurring character in Animaniacs.

Elmyra ended up starring in another show anyway, but her family (and even Furrball) got left out of it.

"Fields of Honey" and "Two-Tone Town" were also suspected of being this; the latter even lampshades the show's eventual replacement (with "ACME Oop!", a.k.a Animaniacs).

"The Return of Batduck" was a pilot for The Plucky Duck Show, which wound up airing only as a package of previously-aired Plucky Duck cartoons from Tiny Toons.

Positive Discrimination: Young black female Mary Melody, the only non-villainous human, whose main purpose is to be nice. She wasn't used often or in significant roles, to the point that Lampshade Hanging was done when she turned up as one of the hero's Merry Men in a Robin Hood parody: "Another cameo, another paycheck."

Prehensile Tail: Fifi, who can use her tail to grab "boyfriends", as a bat (As seen in Buster at the Bat), as a shield (As seen in the Defenders of the Universe licensed game), and to spray stink (Being a skunk and all).

Premature Eulogy: Doubly subverted near the end of "Lame Joke" when, after Buster finishes the eulogy, and he and his friends say goodbye to the dead Lame Joke, he suddenly recalls his lame joke that didn't make them laugh before but now makes them laugh with a little bit of reasoning... and brings the Lame Joke Back from the Dead.

Stanley: NOBODY drinks coffee on my set! I make one phone call and there won't be any coffee in this town for a month!!

In-universe, Steven Spielberg in "Phone Call From the 405" (from "Fox Trot"), as he re-writes pretty much everything about a skit Buster and Babs just finished, and even after they do everything he tells them, Steven criticizes that their fall off a cliff was all wrong and they should just do it over.

In "A Ditch In Time", Plucky tricks the prehistoric ancestors of the show's cast into thinking he is their new leader. When Buster and Babs tell the truth about Plucky to them, they toss their fruit and vegetables at him when he returns.

Plucky: "Yesterday's leader, today's tossed salad."

Montana Max does this to Buster in "Animaniacs!" at the beginning of the Acme Looniversity Film Festival. Fortunately, Buster dodges the vegetables, grabs one of the carrots (obviously so he can eat it later), and catches a watermelon with his ears and tosses it back at Monty.

Puddle-Covering Chivalry: In the opening wraparound of "Here's Hamton", Hamton places a shirt over a puddle so Shirley can cross over it. When Shirley steps on the shirt, she falls through the puddle as if it were a trap door.

Punny Name: Mary Melody is a play on the Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" shorts. Also Fowlmouth, the foul-mouthed rooster.

Pyro Maniac: Leonard, one of Arthur Jabba's henchmen from "Take Elmyra Please" loves fire and constantly asks his partner George if he can burn things. When they kidnap Elmyra and take her to their hideout (which she thinks is the studio for a TV show starring her), at one point, she asks Leonard to light the stove for her, since she's not allowed to play with matches. Leonard is happy to oblige and ends up blowing the hideout because Elmyra poured gasoline into the frying pan.

Retcon: The episode "Fields of Honey" re-writes the Bosko history for the purposes of the plot. In real life, the Bosko series ended because Harman & Ising left Warner Bros. and took Bosko with them, but "Fields of Honey" claims Bosko and Honey lost their popularity because new star Porky Pig debuted—although in reality, Porky didn't debut until 1935 (arguably didn't make it big until 1936) a good three years after WB's Bosko shorts already ended. Then again, who could blame them for wanting to Retcon the existence of Buddy?

In "Elmyra at the Mall" (part of "You Asked For It Again"), Elmyra has a completely different set of parents than the ones which later appeared in "Take Elmyra, Please" and "Grandma's Dead".

Right on the Tick: Plucky and the other classmates wait for school to end in the song "Waiting for the Clock".

Rise from Your Grave/Back from the Dead: The Lame Joke miraculously revives from his grave after Buster recalls the lame joke that didn't make them laugh before but now makes them laugh with some reasoning. And as a bonus for being raised from death, the Lame Joke no longer needs the crutches so he can walk with the RunningGag.

Road Sign Reversal: At the beginning of "High Toon", Beaky Buzzard sits above two signs, one leading to the amusement park, AcmeLand, and the other to No Man's Land, otherwise known as Prairie Junction. Beaky sneezes and switches the signs around, and as a result, Buster and Babs, who are on their way to AcmeLand, go to Prairie Gulch, which at first, they think is the Wild West section of the park.

Script Swap: In "Ruffled Ruffee", Buster does this to Ruffee so that his song about a monkey looking both ways to cross the street ends with the monkey getting hit by a bus.

Sealed Evil in a Can: In "The Looney Beginning", when Buster and Babs need to find villains for their series, they find a box known as the "Villains Box", that has signs with warnings such as DANGER!STAY OUT! and GO AWAY! written on it. Upon opening the box, it releases many of the series' villains, many of which are minor and one-shot characters, such as the Candy Bar Monster from the "Best O' Plucky Duck Day" episode segment, "Sticky Feathers Duck", The Devil from the ending to "Sawdust and Toonsil", The Metropolis Marvels from "The Acme Bowl", and Dr. Gene Splicer from "Hare Raising Night". Eventually, it gets down to Dizzy Devil, Elmyra Duff, and of course, Montana Max.

Self-Deprecation: The characters made fun of the writers all the time, from lampshading their falling through literal plot holes to the lyrics for the Wonderful LifeChristmas special ("Our writers aren't gifted/the story has been lifted...").

Ship Tease: Buster and Babs can't seem to decide whether they're just really good friends or a couple, and the writers had quite a bit of fun teasing us about it until the third season (when they finally started being overtly romantic).

Shockingly Expensive Bill: Taken to a ridiculous extreme in "Whining Out" (part of "Life in the 90's"). After tying down the waiter to get some service at a very snooty restaurant, Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton each end up a tiny stale piece of cheese in gravy, which costs them "Everything you own and first born". They pay the bill using Montana Max's student ID.

Short-Distance Phone Call: Seen in "Day For Knight" (part of "Brave Tales of Real Rabbits") when Buster and Hamton talk on the phone, and are standing right next to each other.

Shout-Out: In "Brave Tales of Real Rabbits", Babs performs a train-whistle style scream that is a shout out to a similar scream done by Roger Rabbit.

A Roger Rabbit look/sound-alike also appeared in "New Character Day" and "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian."

For that matter, "Bat's All Folks" (also an obvious shout-out to Batman) introduced a set of Batman villain parodies and had Plucky react to them in the same way Duck Twacey reacts to his rogue's gallery.

"Inside Plucky Duck" is the Shout Out towards the Clampett Corneal Catastrophe, in Book Revue.

"Eating Between The Lines" (Part of "Looniversity Daze") has several Shout Outs to Book Revue as well.

"Ruffled Ruffee" has several shoutouts to the Chuck Jones classic, Long-Haired Hare.

There's also Buster's dance moves in "Prom-ise Her anything". Which come straight out of Bugs' Hot Cross Bunny.

Shirley's psychic rampage in "The Amazing Three" is reminiscent of the prom scene of Carrie. Babs even asks Fifi if she remembered that particular movie.

In "Drawn and Buttered" (part of "Here's Hamton"), the lobster pranks Hamton and then says a line used in many Tex Avery cartoons:

The Parody EpisodeA Quack in the Quarks is a big shout out to Star Wars. At one point, every character is dressed up like someone from the movie to battle "Duck Vader." And in the loading bay? If you look closely between all the ships, you can see the TARDIS!

In one "Night Ghoulery" sketch, a Witch tasks her pet cat Furrball with getting rid of a ghostly mouse (Li'l Sneezer). On his second attempt, Furrball emerges from behind the sofa, decked out in screen-accurateGhostbusters regalia. Li'l Sneezer even takes the place of the "No-Ghost" on his shoulder patch!

Sidekick: In the first episode, Plucky is hired specifically to be the joint sidekick of Buster and Babs. He angrily points out that Hamton (who they've already hired as the Straight Man) "has all the earmarks of a sidekick" and reveals that Hamton really does have "sidekick" written on his ear. These two characters pretty much play the sidekick roles throughout the series, and in a lot of the action parodies Hamton becomes Plucky's sidekick, making him the sidekick to a sidekick.

So Bad, It's Good: In-universe example; Cooper DeVille realizes that Buster, Babs, and Plucky's movie in "Toons Take Over" falls into this category, though he initially feels it's horrible.

Something Completely Different: The episodes "Tiny Toons Music Television" and "Toon TV", which abandoned the three shorts format in favor of some music videos.

"How Sweetie It Is" also counts, since all the shorts star Sweetie and two of the three shorts don't feature any recurring characters.

"The Kite" (part of "Pledge Week"), which is about a moth befriending a kite. Hamton and Buster are briefly in it, but for the most part it's focused on the moth and kite, with minimal amounts of gags.

The two episodes starring the Flea family, "Starting From Scratch" and "Flea For Your Life". They do feature regular characters (prominently Furball), but the focus is mainly on the fleas.

Something We Forgot: "Who Bopped Bugs Bunny" ends with Buster asking this question. Turns out they forgot to release Plucky and Daffy from jail.

Sound Effect Bleep: Used liberally in "To Bleep Or Not To Bleep" (from "Test Stressed"), as Fowlmouth can't stop swearing.

Also used in "Stand-Up and Deliver" (from "Henny Youngman Day") in the case of a briefly-appearing comedian named "The Roach" (based off of Andrew "Dice" Clay).

This is lampshaded at the end of "How Sweetie It Is", in which the secondary characters protest against Buster and Babs for not giving them enough focus.

Status Quo Game Show: In the "K-Acme TV" sketch, "Gyp-Parody", Buster hosts the titular game show. His three contestants are Elmyra, Dizzy, and Calamity. However, none of them are able to win anything; Calamity because while he does know the question to each answer, his buzzer refuses to work, Dizzy because he ate his podium, and Elmyra because she's just plain stupid. The sketch ends with Elmyra's blunders driving Buster crazy and Babs quietly wheeling him away.

Stealing The Credit: Throughout "Sepulveda Boulevard", Montana Max steals scripts, crosses out the previous writers' names, and puts his name in their place. It starts with Plucky's script (though Plucky wasn't all that original to begin with, as he crossed out Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's names before putting his name in), and then he tries taking credit for Elmyra's script, "101 Cuddly Puppies Meet Princess Pretty Girl". He gets found out by Hamton towards the end of the epsiode. At the end of the episode, Mr. Cooper DeVille takes all the credit for Elmyra's film, prompting Monty, Elmyra, and Plucky to beat him up.

Steven Ulysses Perhero: Parodied on "Superbabs", wherein Babs Bunny, as Superbabs, protects the general metropolitan area. The other characters realize at the end of the short that she must be someone they know.

Plucky Duck: Now who do we know named "Super"?

Stock Footage: "Take Elmyra Please" begins with reused animation from "K-ACME TV", except with new dialog reflecting that Buster and Babs are presenting an episode centered around Elmyra's family. This is particularly odd because the "K-ACME TV" footage was by Wang, but "Take Elmyra Please" was done by TMS.

An odd example: The opening of "Strange Tales of Weird Science" (that is, Elmyra forcing Buster and Babs to play with her) was actually stock footage, though it wasn't used in any aired episode. It was originally intended for "The Looney Beginning", but was cut for time. Since "Weird Science" was running short, this bit was inserted into that episode and some new dialog was ADR'd into the scene to change the context that Buster and Babs are late starting the show because they're being hounded by Elmyra. It's easy to tell this footage was meant for another episode, however, because it was animated by Kennedy Cartoons and Wang Film Productions, while "Weird Science" was by Encore Cartoons.

Straight Man: Hamton, much like his mentor Porky Pig was to the Looney Tunes. Mary Melody in the rare times she actually interacts with the main characters.

Lampshaded in the first episode, when Hamton auditions for the show. He's specifically hired because Babs says they need a straight man.

Hamton: I react to characters funnier than I am!

Suck E. Cheese's: Cheesy Sneezer's. Although the name brings to mind Caesarland, the Chuck E. Cheese's clone made by Little Caesars.

Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish: In the episode where the main gang ends up in England, Babs reveals she's fluent in "royalese," which was necessary in order to talk to Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

Suddenly Voiced: Furrball, and not consistently, either. One time it was Frank Welker performing Furrball's voice (basically, a higher version of his Fred Jones voice); another time, it was just Frank meowing; yet another time, Rob Paulsen did his voice instead.

It should be noted that two of the instances where Furrball speaks (specifically, "Cinemaniacs" and "Buster and the Wolverine") were early in the production order, and thus can be seen as testing whether he should have a voice or not. The writers quickly decided Furrball worked better as a normal cat who just meows.

Super-Strong Child: In "Take Elmyra Please", Elmyra's baby brother has super strength, which he uses to bend the bars on his crib and go on a mini-rampage through the living room. However, in the follow-up episode, "Grandma's Dead", he does not display any of his super strengths and acts more like a typical baby.

Taken for Granite: Happens to Roderick in "The Acme Bowl" after running through and smelling a cloud of Fifi's stink, Hamton in "The Just-us League of Supertoons" after being hit by a blast of Fifi's stink, and Hamton in "Pluck O' the Irish" by a banshee's stare.

Take Our Word for It: The cow getting processed to make a hamburger in "Slaughterhouse Jive" (part of "Going Places"). We don't see it occur but Montana Max is visibly horrified.

The above-mentioned Roderick and Rhubella Rat are almost certainly meant to be the Tiny Toons counterparts to Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

The creepy fanboy in "Night Ghoulery" is based on a stalker who sent Tress MacNeille disturbing letters which caused her to fear for life and cancel any convention appearances she was planning to make around where he livesnote As an interesting historical footnote, this same guy, Dennis Falk, was also an early activist for the fair-use rights of privately owned internet fansites, which just goes to show you don't need to be sane, or even a decent human being, to get shit done..

Censors are frequently bashed, even making a whole episode ("Washingtoon") about how it's bad. It doesn't help they openly bash them in the theme song.

"Acme Cable TV" straddles the line between being an Affectionate Parody and a Take That to various TV shows and commercials of today and yesteryear.

Bunny:(laughs) Golly geewiz!! Aren't I the kyu-test thing you ever sae? Uh-huh? I'm sure am! I'll go to your house and I'll live there forever and ever and ever!! And you'll never-ever-ever get tired of me. And i'll go hippity-hop, hippity-hop right in your heart!

Animator: Eeww, that thing will gives people cavities.

Bunny: I love everybody in all the world and I even love being crumpled up being thrown away. (Becomes muffled as animator crumples him and throws away).

Played straight with the recurring character of Li'l Sneezer. He basically has all the same qualities as the scrapped baby rabbit (including the same voice actress), but this time, he's a mouse.

Telethon: The episode, "Pledge Week" involves the characters from the show hosting a telethon, but nobody seems to be pledging any money, or even calling, aside from a prank caller. In the third wraparound, after telling the viewers the wonderful stuff they could get if they pledged (including the actual Plucky), they manage to raise $0.07.

Terrible Interviewees Montage: In "Thirteensomething", after Babs aces her audition for the titular Show Within a Show, Buster is left to hold auditions for a replacement cohost for Tiny Toon Adventures. The first candidate is a rabbit who's a Brainless Beauty, the second is a rabbit who is ugly and has Bad Bad Acting, and the third is a Non-anthropomorphic white rabbit. When none of those work out, even Plucky Duck and Shirley the Loon offer their services as Buster's replacement cohost, but to no avail.

Also parodied in "The Buster Bunny Bunch", due to it being a parody of The Mickey Mouse Club.

Thermometer Gag: In the short, "Concord the Kindly Condor" (part of "Toons From the Crypt"), a bear gets caught in a trap. Concord arrives, takes out a thermometer, and walks towards the bear's rear. The next shot is a close-up of the bear's satisfied face, surrounded by hearts. This gag is then revealed to be subverted, as Concord merely used the thermometer to pry the trap open so the bear could get free.

They Might Be Giants: "Particle Man" and "Istanbul" were made into videos with the TTA characters, but both have Plucky and Hamton in the starring roles. In one part of "Istanbul", they even have Plucky and Hamton portray TMBG themselves.

Those videos are still fan favorites today. A lot of people only got into They Might Be Giantsafter hearing their songs in the show.

Buster: Who are these guys?!

Thick-Line Animation: Certain scenes in most episodes animated by Kennedy Cartoons, which was not used after Season 1 due to quality control issues.

Wang is also guilty of this in its S1 episodes, though they got better, as mentioned above.

Parodied briefly in the cartoon, "Phone Call From the 405" from the episode, "Fox Trot."

Three Shorts: Some were in this format (usually with a bumper before each), while others were standalone 22-minute episodes. Even rarer are the "one short and one long" 2-ep format.

In "To Bleep or Not To Bleep" from "Test Stressed", a furious Fowlmouth finds out that Shirley had already been asked to the prom by Plucky; he looks as if he's about to blow up once again, the few babies Buster used to ease up on the rooster's obscenities cry and flee, he's literally stomping mad, so much so he causes the earth to shake, his face turns violet and just as he's seemingly going to let loose with the bleeped, bad language, his facial color reverts to normal and he nonchalantly and coolly says, "rats, maybe next time".

In "Born To Be Riled" from "The Buster Bunny Bunch", Shirley and Fifi's faces turn red, as they're fuming at Babs' impressions of them.

In "Kat-Astrophe" from "Wake Up Call of the Wild", Hamton's face gets red, heated over Furball's inability to resist destroying the house.

In "Pledge Week" from " It's All Relative", a ticked-off and irritated Babs' face turns red when her mother tells her once again to do "that other funny thing you do", which is hindering her plans with Buster. Babs quotes her except in first person, through clenched teeth.

In "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian", Buster's face turns into a paler shade of blue than usual, when steward Plucky asks if he'd like gray lumps with brown sauce or brown lumps with gray sauce. Save for his red shirt, Buster also gets ill from eating a carrot chip and in reaction to it, he melts into a puddle and dashes to the airplane's restroom (which is already full of occupants who also have upset stomachs) to throw up in there. He then exits the restroom and asks, "So you guys had the carrot chips too?"

In "The Voyage of Kon Ducki" from "Kon Ducki", Plucky's face is turned white during the sea storm part and he gets seasickness, and turned away from the viewers, he's seen vomiting over the ship, into the sea.

In the same segment/episode, a bashful Hamton is seen blushing lightly after his grass skirt falls from his waist and a tour bus guide points him out to the tourists.

Tickle Torture: Performed by a villain (Sloppy Moe from the Injun Trouble short with Porky Pig and Wagon Heels) on Plucky in "The Return of Pluck Twacy" (part of "New Character Day").

In "A Ditch in Time", Plucky's future self builds a time machine, then travels back four days to show his present-day counterpart. The present-day Plucky borrows the time machine so he can travel back in time to do his homework ahead of time. However, when he shows it to Buster and Babs, he travels back to a Prehistoric Acme Acres, while Buster and Babs travel to a Medieval Acme Acres. They all meet the ancestors of the show's cast, mostly the Prehistoric ones. Plucky takes advantage of the Prehistoric ancestors, until Buster and Babs reunite with him and tell them the truth.

In "What Makes Toons Tick", Calamity builds a time machine so Buster can show the viewers why his friends are the way they are. He and Calamity travel back to Dizzy Devil's first romantic encounter, Baby Plucky's experience with a mall elevator, and Hamton and Sneezer's fearless encounters with a closet monster.

Trade Snark: In "Hollywood Plucky", Hamton was working a valet parking job, and Batman has him park his Batmobile. However, while attempting to do this, Hamton accidently flies it into the moon. It turns into a Bat-signal, and a "TM" quickly flies up next to it.

Treasure Hunt Episode: In "No Toon is an Island", Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton find a treasure map leading to Booty Island. During their travel, they are warned by the ghost of the Pirate Captain about the legendary Green-Eyed Monster. They split the treasure evenly, but when Babs, Plucky, and Hamton's shares get stolen by the Island's only inhabitant, the X-Bird, they all accuse Buster of stealing it and battle each other for the remaining share.

Twist Ending: Lampshaded in "A Walk on the Flip Side" (part of "The ACME Acres Zone"); Montana Max dreamed he was a rabbit and went through numerous hardships. But when Buster and Babs beg for carrots, Max shouts, "Carrots?! You have the nerve to ask me for carrots?! AFTER WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH?!" Babs is dismayed that Max didn't learn anything and that the short didn't have a twist ending (per usual for The Twilight Zone), but Buster tells her to wait for it. Sure enough, Max's mansion is then overrun by rabbits, a fitting punishment.

Two Shorts: While most episodes typically adopted the Three Shorts format or a single story for the half hour, five episodes utilized the Two Shorts format: "Inside Plucky Duck", "Ask Mr. Popular", "Fairy Tales For the 1990s", "New Character Day", and "Buster's Directorial Debut".

Unintentional Period Piece: The unfortunate side effect of all those contemporary pop culture references. From Roseanne singing the national anthem to then President George Bush Sr. has shown that some of the jokes haven't aged well.

Vague Age: Somewhere from elementary school to college, although Babs says she's 14 in the first episode (oddly, 16 in the Brazilian dub).

If they are indeed in high school, they might fall into Older Than They Look. Indeed, some episodes portray Acme Loo as high school, or even middle school, instead of a university.

In almost every episode, Elmyra is seen going to Acme Loo with the others as if she were a teenager, despite having the mentality of a small child. In the episode "Grandma's Gone", though, she's seen going to a different school and in a class with young children. Possibly justified in that it was a Poorly Disguised Pilot.

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation - The characters sing about how they plan to spend (and at the end, spent) their summer vacation.

"Two Tone Town" - The Two-Tones sing about their new show and their home town.

"It's A Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special - The characters sing a Christmas-themed version of the song. Also, in the alternate timeline, Plucky is the star of Tiny Toon Adventures and sings his own lyrics describing him as the star.

When Plucky got his own spin-off (which mostly consisted of recycled "Tiny Toons" shorts with one original episode), the lyrics described Plucky as the star in a manner similar to the example above.

The CD "Tiny Toons Sing" has the theme song sung in different languages.

"Spring Break Special" - The characters sing about how they plan to spend (and at the end, spent) their spring break, similar to the Summer Vacation example.

"Night Ghoulery" - The characters sing about what they have planned (at at the end, the results) for their halloween special.

In Tiny Toons How I Spent My Vacation Buster plays a Dueling Banjos version with a possum banjoist. Buster plays his tongue.

Very Special Episode: At first parodied ("Elephant Issues", the Toxic Revenger episodes), but later played straight ("Whale's Tales" and "Washingtoon").

Viewer Species Confusion: Invoked; the Credits Gag for "Pledge Week" aptly asks: "Quick Question: Those Babes Around Arnold— What Kind of Animals Were They?" (referring to the babes in "Lifeguard Lunacy")

Villain Decay: Many characters (Furrball, Dizzy, Calamity) started out as villains but quickly became neutral or sympathetic. Even Montana Max underwent a serious mellowing out after the first season (in the storylines, as a result of his parents asserting themselves in his life; in reality, because his young voice actor complained about being "the bad guy".)

Vocal Evolution: Charlie Adler's voice for Buster is noticeably higher in some of the earlier-recorded episodes (e.g. "Cinemaniacs" and "Buster and the Wolverine"), almost sounding as if it were pitch-shifted slightly. Montana Max's voice also became a little deeper over time, but it's justified in his case, as Danny Cooksey was the one of the only actual children in the voice cast (Nathan Ruegger, who voiced Baby Plucky, was the other).

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